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Chapter 29
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2026-04-05 07:59:20Mason's POV
I was reading Reeves's overnight report when the news alert hit my screen. Not a notification I could dismiss, a full broadcast interrupt on the financial channel I kept running on the office wall display, which my communications director had set to flag anything containing Mason Empire's name or any of our key competitors.Hargrove Meridian had triggered it. And then Maya Hargrove walked to a podium and I stopped reading entirely.<
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